On February 14, 2014, trombonist Glen David Andrews was playing a gig in Boston - which had been battered by multiple feet of snow and temperatures in the teens. He led the crowd out of the club and around the block anyway, in a snowy second line past shoulder-high drifts.

On April 28, 2008, the Ponderosa Stomp music conference hosted a live interview with legendary engineer Cosimo Matassa (then 82 years old) conducted by award-winning Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman. In the discussion, the two touched on everything from the iconic artists who recorded at Matassa’s J&M Studios in New Orleans – Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, Smiley Lewis, Allen Toussaint, Little Richard, Dr. John and more – to memories of the French Quarter during Matassa’s childhood, as well as the sometimes-shocked response the engineer received when people learned his studio recorded integrated bands. Cosimo Matassa died Sept. 11, 2014. (Video courtesy of the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.)

In January 2014, the rootsy New Orleans group Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue released 'Last to Leave,' its third album and its first of nearly all (11 out of 12) original compositions. The aesthetic of the originals hews to the vintage twang and swing of the classic country and rockabilly covers with which the band made a name for itself; NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune's Keith Spera called 'Last to Leave' "a finely wrought spin around a honky-tonk dance floor." The first music video from the album (and the band’s first music video ever, in fact) debuted during summer 2014.

New Orleans singer-songwriter Paul Sanchez plays and discusses the song 'At the Foot of Canal Street,' a song he wrote in collaboration with John Boutte. Written in the style of a hymn that might be played at a second-line parade, it captures the feelings behind being at one.

Singer-songwriter Tommy Malone, the subdues frontman, released his second recent solo album, "Poor Boy" (MC Records) in the spring of 2014. At Euclid Records in Bywater during Jazz Fest 2014, he sat down to play and discuss the writing process behind "Crazy Little Johnny," a sad, tender and comic tale that had been percolating for years and found a home on the new album.

The rising New Orleans superstar bounce rapper has been at the center of the past year's obsession with the dance move 'twerking,' which was brought into the spotlight when pop singer Miley Cyrus adopted it. During Freedia's conversation with historian, Peggy Scott Laborde, on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz Fest, the two discussed faith, fashion, music and more - but, of course, the T-word did come up. Watch as Freedia remembers hanging out with Miley Cyrus backstage at the Smoothie King Center and explains how the twerk, in fact, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to real New Orleans-style dancing.

The rising New Orleans superstar bounce rapper has been at the center of the past year's obsession with the dance move 'twerking,' which was brought into the spotlight when pop singer Miley Cyrus adopted it. During Freedia's conversation with historian, Peggy Scott Laborde, on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz Fest, the two discussed faith, fashion, music and more - but, of course, the T-word did come up. Watch as Freedia remembers hanging out with Miley Cyrus backstage at the Smoothie King Center and explains how the twerk, in fact, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to real New Orleans-style dancing.

New Orleans guitarist Luke Winslow King writes and performs in the vintage milieu of prewar country blues and folk. On his 2013 debut for the respected indie label Bloodshot Records, "The Coming Tide," King updated the classic New Orleans murder ballad "Ella Speed." Here, he discusses the story of the song, and the process involved in making it his own.